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The readings in the table below are from the following course textbooks:

Amazon logo Gordis, L. Epidemiology. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders, 2004. ISBN: 9780721603261.

Amazon logo Schork, M. A., and R. D. Remington. Statistics with Applications to the Biological and Health Sciences. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2000. ISBN: 9780130223272.


LEC #TOPICSINSTRUCTORSREADINGS
1Introductory LectureProf. James Sherley
Prof. Steven Tannenbaum
Dr. Laura Green
2Watch film A Civil ActionProf. James Sherley
Prof. Steven Tannenbaum
Dr. Laura Green
3From the Real World to Hollywood and Back AgainDr. Laura Green
4Epidemiology: Persons, Places, and TimeProf. James SherleyGordis. Chapters 1 and 2.
5Epidemiology: Test Development and Relative RiskProf. James SherleyGordis. Chapters 3-5, 11, and 12.

Schork and Remington. Sections 8-1, 8-5, 8-6-2, and 8-8.
6Biostatistics: Concepts in VarianceProf. James SherleySchork and Remington. Chapters 1 and 2, sections 4-1, 4-2, 4-4 to 4-7.
7Biostatistics: Distribution and the Mean

Confidence Intervals
Prof. James SherleySchork and Remington. Sections 5-1, 5-2, 5-4, 5-6-1, 5-6-2, 5-6-8, 6-0, 6-1, 6-2, 7-7, and 7-7-1.
8Biostatistics: Detecting Differences and CorrelationsProf. James SherleySchork and Remington. Sections 6-3, 7-2, 7-3, 7-4, 10-1 to 10-4, and 10-6.
9Biostatistics: Poisson Analyses and PowerProf. James SherleySchork and Remington. Sections 3-0, 3-1, 5-2, 5-5, 6-7, 7-0, 7-1, 9-1, 9-1-1, 9-1-2-3, and 14-3.
10Environetics: Cause and EffectProf. James SherleyGordis. Chapters 14-16.
11Environetics: Study Design - Retrospective versus ProspectiveProf. James SherleyGordis. Chapters 7-10, and 13.

Hecht, S. S., et al. "Metabolites of a Tobacco-specific Lung Carcinogen in the Urine of Elementary School-aged Children." Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 10 (November 2001): 1109–1116.

Hunt, P. A., et al. "Bisphenol A Exposure Causes Meiotic Aneuploidy in the Female Mouse." Current Biology 13 (April 1, 2003): 546–553.

Proctor, R. N. "Tobacco and the global lung cancer epidemic." Nature Reviews Cancer 1 (October 2001): 82-86.
12Environetics: Putting it all together - Evaluating StudiesProf. James SherleySelected readings of original literature.
13Quiz #1: Epidemiology-BiostatisticsProf. James Sherley
14Evaluating Environmental Causes of MesotheliomaProf. James Sherley
15Quantitative Risk Assessment 1Dr. Laura Green
16Quantitative Risk Assessment 2Dr. Laura Green
17Toxicology 1Prof. Steven TannenbaumWogan, G. N., et al. "Environmental and chemical carcinogenesis." Seminars in Cancer Biology 14 (2004): 473–486.
18Toxicology 2Prof. Steven Tannenbaum
19Toxicology 3Prof. Steven Tannenbaum
20Toxicology 4Prof. Steven Tannenbaum
21Toxicology 5Prof. Steven Tannenbaum
22Quantitative Risk Assessment 3Dr. Laura Green
23Quantitative Risk Assessment 4Dr. Laura Green
24Quiz #2: QRA-ToxicologyDr. Laura Green
Prof. Steven Tannenbaum
25Classroom Presentations of Team Projects
26Classroom Presentations of Team Projects (cont.)

 








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